Middle East

Syria in firing line; Egypt’s hard line on journos remains; Indonesia cuts no-go zone red tape.

Reshuffling before Myanmar election; Canada’s hardline prime minister.

Sri Lankan polls; heads roll over 1MDB scandal; Russia to host clash of tank titans.

Alexis Tsipras’s big fat Greek debt; Aung San Suu Kyi’s party plan; Cattle cuts payback

Why do young Westerners give up their lives to join Daesh? An American jihadist in Syria describes his “one-way ticket to paradise”.

Japan surveys Spratly Islands. Sifting terrorists from anti-IS corps; UN reports possible Gaza war crimes; US muscles up in Eastern Europe; Timor-Leste spy saga.

Bernardi speaks against Abbott’s ‘power creep’. Terror talk of citizenship oath unsettles migrants. Nuclear Iran deal affects IS fight. Emboldened Eurosceptics evoke ‘Anglosphere’.

Headaches ahead over B-1 bombers; IS and Ramadi mirror Mad Max; Hong Kong press freedom and judicial threats; ABC Tokyo bureau closure untimely; Hello Kitty’s 40th.

Assad regime genocide fears; Rohingya crisis is a test of ASEAN strength.

Jokowi strengthens Papua relations; Singapore’s new media predicament; tense days in the Middle East.